12dz Chapter 156 It just won’t work
Chapter 156 It just won’t work
Wenxi planned to go to the waterfall early tomorrow morning. After all, she had planted a lot of fruits and vegetables there. Vegetables like water spinach and red amaranth were ready to be harvested. However, she didn't expect that Lin Yiwan would come to ask Wenxi to pick snails in the rice fields when it was cool tomorrow morning.
Many people will have a day off tomorrow, so no one will say anything if they go to the rice fields to pick up snails. Otherwise, others will definitely say that they have time to pick up snails but no time to work.
Seeing Wen Xi's confused look, Lin Yiwan asked with a smile, "Xiao Xi, you don't even know what snails are, do you? You city people are really short-sighted!"
"Nonsense, who said I don't know what snails are? Not only do I know what sea snails are!" Wen Xi denied.
Although she had never seen it, she lived to the late 1980s in her previous life, so she must have some knowledge. Besides, she graduated from high school after all, so how could she not know these things!
Lin Yiwan smiled and pushed Wen Xi's shoulder. "Then let's go pick up snails together tomorrow morning. By the way, leeches seem to be out in season, so you'd better wear boots."
"Leech?" Wen Xi's body couldn't help but shudder when she thought of that soft thing that could suck human blood. The reason she didn't want to go to work was because of this thing.
In her previous life, when she was planting rice in the fields, several leeches lay on her legs and sucked her blood. She was so scared that she collapsed and screamed in the field. It was Lin Qing who pulled a handful of grass and swatted the leeches away for her.
It was because of that incident that she mistakenly thought that Lin Qing liked her. After she was reborn, she realized that Lin Qing did not like her. If a man really liked a woman, it would be impossible for him to not confess his feelings for a year or two and just let her leave.
Wen Xi came back to his senses and nodded, "I see, thank you! Come and call me when you leave tomorrow morning!"
The next morning, Lin Yiwan came early and called Wenxi to pick snails. Wenxi carried the basket and followed Lin Yiwan. Although the morning was sunny, the sunlight was still soft, and there was a gentle breeze, which was very cool.
When we arrived at the rice fields, we saw that the rice was growing lushly. It hadn't rained recently, so the water in the fields was not turbid but crystal clear. We could see small wild fish that we couldn't name or catch, as well as tiny river shrimps, and the snails lying in the mud were very clear.
Both of them were wearing boots and carrying baskets. They walked into the rice field and bent down to pick up snails.
When transplanting rice seedlings, they do it in rows with gaps in between. They walk through the gaps, just don't step on the seedlings.
The two people walked in different directions, so they walked farther and farther, but the number of snails in the basket increased, and the basket became heavier and heavier. Wen Xi looked up at Lin Yiwan, only to see that the number of snails in Lin Yiwan's basket did not seem to grow very fast. He realized that Lin Yiwan had a golden finger, so he should keep half and collect the other half.
After all, Lin Yiwan has a big family, and there is not much meat in a basket of snails. It is definitely not enough for the whole family to eat. She should have put most of them into the space.
So Wenxi did the same, putting two-thirds into the system warehouse and one-third in the basket.
The two of them picked rice in the rice field for more than an hour before going ashore. It was only a little after seven o'clock and it was still early. The two of them walked back side by side. Lin Yiwan shared with Wenxi how to eat snails. Although Wenxi knew how to cook it, he did not spoil the fun but listened carefully.
It was not until they entered the village that the two people parted ways because their two houses were not in the same row.
When Wen Xi returned home, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue were not awake yet. Wen Xi put the snails down and went to the kitchen to make breakfast. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, so it was very suitable to eat mung bean porridge, and paired with pancakes, it tasted so comfortable.
Wenxi used the big iron pot inside to cook mung bean porridge with corn flour, wheat flour, eggs and flour, and then made a plate of egg tortillas. It was fluffy and soft, with the fresh aroma of eggs, and very delicious.
Wen Xi did not call Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue. After having breakfast, she carried a backpack and went up the mountain to the waterfall. She not only wanted to pick the vegetables she could, but also to release the crab seedlings.
That’s right, she signed out crab seedlings again, and they are hairy crab seedlings. It’s not even May yet, so the crab seedlings can be released.
Moreover, these crab seedlings are not those particularly small crabs, but crabs that are about the size of quail eggs. They are not easy to die. If they are released this year, we can harvest hairy crabs for eating next autumn.
Wen Xi did not delay on the road and walked quickly towards his destination. The leaves above his head blocked the glaring sunlight and he seldom got any sun exposure. However, his whole body was still hot, but it was much better than those people who had to work under the scorching sun.
As they did not stop along the way, Wenxi soon reached the waterfall. She placed a bamboo basket filled with dozens of kilograms of large snails in the shallow water to let the snails spit out the sand.
After releasing 15 kilograms of crab seedlings, Wenxi went to pick vegetables nearby, including water spinach, red amaranth, pumpkin tips, sweet potato vines... She picked all that could be picked. The heroine had such a powerful planting skill that there was no shortage of vegetables on the black market, which meant that her vegetables would have no market. So Wenxi did not plan to sell the vegetables. She decided to put them all in the system warehouse and keep them for herself to eat later.
I will dry some more vegetables, and when I get in touch with my family, I will send them back to show my filial piety.
The orange seeds that Wenxi had planted before have already sprouted, and the saplings are now about ten to twenty centimeters tall. Wenxi decided to let them continue to grow here, and when he is about to return to the city, he will come and dig up a few to take away, and live in that area in the future.
The strawberries that were planted with strawberry seeds have now blossomed and produced fruit. Wenxi was afraid that the strawberries would rot if they were left on the ground, so she used a fruit insect-proof net to protect the small strawberries so that she could eat them.
Strawberries will reproduce on their own. When they produce seedlings, you can just dig them up.
After finishing the work, Wenxi went back. As for the snails, they were placed in shallow water to spit out the mud and sand, and they could be brought back after two days.
When almost reaching the foot of the mountain, Wenxi took out a basket of pig grass from the system warehouse. Sometimes it is beneficial to collect some extra pig grass and keep it. When you don't have time to collect pig grass, you can hand it in directly.
After Captain Qian assigned tasks to everyone in the morning, Qian Qiu Sheng went to the place where the children often went to collect grass for pigs to look for Wen Xi. As a result, he couldn't find anyone after searching for a long time, which delayed him for more than 20 minutes. Fortunately, his job today was to reclaim land, and his work points were high, so it didn't matter if he was delayed for a while.
No one knew where Wenxi was collecting grass for pigs, so Qian Qiu Sheng's plan to create an encounter with Wenxi and help her collect grass for pigs was simply not feasible.